Bravo for two Korea are coming togather the issues past foul history by Japan,
The last part on article stucked me as I was reading, from N. Korea on the history between two countries, Korea-Japen....,
Wish that reconize in terms of past wrongs and move on to better times to come for building greater history for all three countries can benefit for good.

10:48 pm April 24, 2013

corrections to above.... wrote:

"recognize"

12:15 pm April 26, 2013

Josh in Seoul wrote:

Why is it so hard to admit that what they did in the past was wrong?
Is it a matter of honor not to mention that you've screwed up in the past by invading neighboring countries, pillaging and violating its people?
If it is an honor thing then maybe they should all just commit Seppuku and be rid of them.

6:13 pm April 26, 2013

Anonymous wrote:

Why is it so hard to admit that Korea was never invaded.

3:03 pm April 27, 2013

Anonymous wrote:

Korea was never a victim of invasion. Annexation of the Korean Kingdom was recognized by every major nation in the Treaty of Versailles.

2:16 am April 28, 2013

Who's Yo Daddy, Nihon? wrote:

It is to be expected that the Cipangan Islanders do not understand the definition of "invasion." Their earliest inhabitants were (and still are) the Ainu, Paleo-Siberians who ranged well down into at least Central Honshu. They contributed the hairiness that many Japanese exhibit, compared to their neighbors. The first invaders were the Austronesians, who, sailing via the northerly Japan Current, took them from pre-Sinic Taiwan and the northern Philippines. They contributed their vowel-filled musical languages, as well as their batik patterns and cooking in banana leaves (ever wonder why JP restaurants put a plastic leaf on rice? Austronesians boiled or steamed their fish in leaves.) They contributed the everpresent smile that JP's do when nervous. Then their were the Korean Gaya invaders, you know, the "Yayoi" who suddenly made JP resemble Korean civilization in its shamanistic gods, often king-priests, along with the Tungusic Korean elements. Even today, Gaya's home region, Kyeongsangnamdo has a dialect pitch resembling JP's pitch. Next were the invaders from Korean Baekje, who transported their entire kingdom to JP when Shilla took unified Korea. Nihonshoki and Kojiki were written by Baekje scribes - no wonder they speak well of Baekje, as Baekje kings marched on the Yamato Plain and founded, yes, you guessed it: the Imperial line of JP Emperors. They created the same style of pagodas, keyhole tombs (kofun), etc. that existed in their Korean homeland. The JP call Baekje "Kudara." Kudara is Japano-Korean for "kkeun nara" - literally "big country," but in actual Korean usage, such as "kkeun jib" it describes a close relationship, more like "mother country." They gave JP Buddhism, the be-system in governance, and virtually everything that is considered "typically Japanese." Look at the faces of the JP people and you see Koreans, Filipinos, Ainu, and combinations thereof. But the JP elites refuse to recognize JP's ancient history. JP is unique. Right. The only islanders in the world that didn't come from elsewhere. The only modern country that refuses to recognize its parents. This is the root of all their mental problems. Fix this, and JP, KO, and the rest of Asia will be friends.

2:31 am April 28, 2013

post-Baekje Scribbler wrote:

The coolest part of Kojiki for me is when they describe how the "gods" came to Japan on reed boats from Heaven, and when it was time for their education, the princes "returned to Heaven" on reed boats. This is a tale of the early Korean invading conquerors of the Japanese islands, and how they returned to Korea for advanced civilization, education, and investment by the Baekje monarchs. It reminds me a bit of how the Virginia colonial elites sent their sons to England for their education. It must be remembered that Japan was a great backwater of Asia. They only discovered iron in the 600's AD, which meant that for at least 800 years the Iron Age Korean seafaring and horseriding kingdoms of Gaya and Baekje had tremendous technological advantages over the Wa island peoples. I call them "peoples" because there was no unified culture. Many JP dialects even today are mutually unintelligible, the result of different mixes of Korean, Ainu and Austronesian. More on this ancient history that the Japanese are too afraid to discuss: See: highwaywriter.com

3:32 am April 29, 2013

Sad but True wrote:

The Italians know that the Romans were their ancestors. The Canadians know that the French and British were their ancestors. The British know that their ancestors were Angles, Saxons, Normans, Danes, Celts and Picts. But the Japanese, such brilliant people capable of reverse engineering Korean steel swords, Portuguese muskets, Bismarckian constitutions, and American transistors, somehow, amazingly, are the ONLY nation on earth that cannot or will not name its ancestors. Instead, they invent ancestors - peoples that never existed - Yayoi and Jomon. Peoples that never existed except in the history faking minds of the Japanese crazies running Japan. Make note of this: for China and Korea the model of perfection is the scholar; in Japan, the murderous, looting, pillaging, sword-wieldling noble-savage, the illiterate Samurai. The elite of Japan claim descent not from scholars but from looters. They are so proud of this, that they refer to the honorable code of the samurai. Just like the Yakuza and Mafia today, they have their secret ceremonies. Don't fret over their prayers at Yakusuni before class A war criminals. Laugh at them. Don't demand that they change, just laugh at them. Don't feel dishonored by their barbaric rituals, just laugh at them. They are bringing on their own nation's destruction. Before terrorizing the Pacific, Japan's Samurai terrorized the Japanese people, making them the silent and dim cowardly masses that they are today. There is nothing that we can do except keep nations strong and to keep telling the truth about history. Some Japanese will learn, and maybe some day, we pray, Japan will free itself of this cursed caste of barbarians.

7:15 am April 30, 2013

Anonymous wrote:

Who cares what Koreans think.

7:48 am April 30, 2013

jetin11 wrote:

To Anonymous below

The major Japanese newspapers defined it was true Japan invaded Korea. They are definitely smarter than you. Study Japanese history again.

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